Geoff Lawson, 54, the chief designer for Jaguar Cars Ltd. who had a major role in the British automaker's recent turnaround, died Thursday of a stroke in London.

Jiri Pelikan, 76, a former communist who was stripped of his citizenship by Czechoslovakia after a failed attempt at sweeping government reform in 1968, died Saturday in a Rome hospital.

Pub Date: 6/28/99